What Do Patients with Diabetes Think of Health Coaching?

Brief examines the health coaching model of Harlem-based City Health Works. City Health Works coaches use an evidence-based curriculum and motivational interviewing to educate clients about their chronic disease and help them improve their nutrition, medication adherence, physical activity, stress management, and engagement with primary care providers.

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(Reuters Health) - Workers with diabetes who switch to high-deductible health plans that require paying more out-of-pocket for care may be more likely than those who remain in low-deductible plans to delay needed checkups, a U.S. study suggests.

When Alphabetâs Verily Lifesciences plunged into medtech the company took a deep dive. Some collaborations seemed futuristic and others were just natural. However, not all of the collaborations were going to be successful. And so, Verily, the former life sciences division of Google, along with Alcon, Novartisâ eyecare division, are putting the brakes on a plan for its smart lens to detect glucose levels.
Brian Otis, PHD, Chief Technical Officer for Verily announced the news in a recent blog posting.
âOur clinical work on the glucose-sensing lens demonstrated that there ...

TYPE 2 diabetes symptoms aren ’t easy to spot as they don’t necessarily make a person feel unwell. Needing to urinate more often can be one of the signs, but another is feeling itchy in a certain area of the body.

Diabeloop, a company based in Grenoble, France, won the European CE Mark of approval for its DBLG1 blood sugar management system for type 1 diabetics.
The system combines data gathered from a continuous blood glucose monitor and smart algorithms to d...

TYPE 2 diabetes symptoms aren ’t easy to spot as they don’t necessarily make a person feel unwell. Needing to urinate more often can be one of the signs, but another is itching in a certain area of the body.